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The Ascent of GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine A History of Production and Information Machines /
In the concluding chapters of this book the author introduces GIM, the Global Intelligent Machine. GIM is a huge global hybrid machine, a combination of production machinery, information machinery and mechanized networks. In the future it may very well encompass all machinery on the globe. The autho...
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| Format: | e-Book |
| Language: | English |
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2019. |
| Series: | History of Mechanism and Machine Science,
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| Online Access: | Full-text access View in OPAC |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- 1 Introduction
- The Global Intelligent Machine
- Cultural evolution
- Production technology and information technology
- 2 The Rise of Homo Sapiens
- Animals using production tools
- Monkeys and apes using production tools
- Information tools in the animal world: clues, signs and signals
- Communicating honey bees
- Communication among monkeys and apes
- From the hairpin ancestor to Homo sapiens
- Olduwan technology
- The adze makers of Langda
- Language as an information tool
- The control of fire
- The Stone Age Revolution
- Information tools
- Whistle languages
- Talking drums
- The Ishango bone
- Orientation in space, maps in the Pacific
- 3 Tools in the Early Agricultural Empires
- Economic surplus
- Agriculture
- The wheel
- Monumental architecture
- Complete writing
- Towards the alphabet
- Mathematics
- Sundials and water clocks
- 4 The Axial Age and the Birth of Western Science
- The Axial Age
- The rise of abstract symbolic thought in China and India
- Oral versus written thought
- Aristotle's Logic, a New Information Tool
- Knowledge-how versus knowledge-that
- Deductive science
- The birth of the theory of machines
- The wedge and the pulleys
- Archimedes
- The invention of the screw
- Heron's Mechanics
- Combinations of simple machines
- Difficulties in understanding the wedge and the inclined plane
- 5 Machines in Classical Antiquity
- The invention of artillery
- Production machines in Vitruvius' Ten Books on Architecture
- The Phaistos disc
- The abacus
- Water clocks and sundials
- The Armillary Sphere
- The anaphoric clock
- The astrolabe
- The mystery of the Antikythera mechanism
- The front dial
- The upper back dial
- The pin and slot mechanism
- The hodometer
- Automata
- 6 The Middle Ages
- Marco Polo
- Textile machines
- Military technology
- Metal technology
- Movable type printing
- The hodometer and Su Sung's clock
- Automata
- Chinese influence in the West
- The Golden Age of Islamic Science
- Islamic culture, the information machines of the three Banu Musa
- Al-Jazari's production machines
- Al-Muradi
- The rise of the West
- Jordanus
- The Vision of Ramon Llull
- The invention of the printing press
- Llull's influence
- A new information machine: the mechanical clock
- 7 The Renaissance and the Scientific Revolution
- The impact of the printing press
- Da Vinci and the others
- Parachute, tank and machine gun
- Da Vinci as an engineer
- Da Vinci's fame
- Theaters of machines
- Exterior ballistics
- Del Monte and simple machines
- Galilei and simple machines
- The Archimedean screw pump
- Astronomy
- Galilei's Discorsi
- A remarkable Flemish engineer: Simon Stevin
- There is more
- The dream of a mathesis universalis
- Calculators
- Scepticism
- 8 The First Wave of Industrial Revolution: Cotton Textiles and Pig Iron
- The background
- The role of the Scientific Revolution
- A macroeconomic view of the Industrial Revolution
- The Malthusian trap
- The escape
- One or more Industrial Revolutions?
- Innovation and long waves
- The Control Revolution
- Textile industry
- Steam engines
- Safety valve and governor
- Robert Stirling
- Printing
- A changing world
- The clockmakers and the art of the transformation of motion
- Watt's parallelogram
- Babbage's machines
- 9 The Second Wave of Industrial Revolution: Railroads and Steel
- Globalization
- The Railroads
- Stephenson's valve gear
- Corliss Engines
- Problems of control
- Organizational charts: the birth of a new information tool
- Office technology
- Kinematics and the birth of scientific technology
- The energetic approach
- Sadi Carnot and the Carnot machine
- Thermodynamics is born
- The application of thermodynamics to the design of actual machines
- 10 More Scientific Technology
- Electrical engineering
- Ballistics
- Iron in architecture
- Scientific management
- Control rooms
- Sales
- Calculators
- Statistical machines
- Scientific calculators
- Kelvin's tide predictors
- Differential analyzers
- 11 Electronic Brains
- The fourth wave and the first programmable computers
- Turing machines: What can be computed in principle?
- Code breaking
- The mechanization of the mind
- Early computers in the USA
- Real Time Computing
- Software
- The computer becomes personal
- The fifth wave and the World Wide Web
- Smartphones and more
- 12 Towards the Global Intelligent Machine
- Early hybrid machines
- Karel Čapek
- An early parallel robot
- Analogue computer-controlled machines
- From analogue to numerical control
- Cybernetics
- An early serial robot
- Robotics
- The Stewart platform
- Field and service robots
- Artificial intelligence
- The Internet of Things
- The Global Intelligent Machine
- On the way to GIM
- GIM is growing fast
- Industry 4.0
- 13 Epilogue
- Hindsight
- A Brave New World?
- The battleground
- Cybercrime
- Unemployment
- Security, Privacy and fake news
- 14 Literature
- Index.